Trout

NORWAY - Austevoll Seafoods reported strong earnings in Q4 2013 due to good prices for Atlantic salmon and trout. The company also had a good fishing season for anchoveta in Peru.

ANALYSIS - In this week's news, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute has discovered a new disease in hatchery rainbow trout, writes Lucy Towers, TheFishSite Editor.

NORWAY - The Norwegian Veterinary Institute has discovered a new disease in hatchery rainbow trout.

NORWAY - The Norwegian ambassador is meeting with Russian veterinary authorities to discuss the fish export situation after Russia halted imports of Norwegian white and pelagic fish that are not from …

CROATIA - An outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis has been reported on a fresh water fish farm in Croatia.

AKVA group and its distributor Sinor AS, have secured a 23,4 MNOK contract with DunAn Longyangxia for delivery of a complete cage farm in a hydro dam reservoir near Xining, central China.

CHILE - During the first nine months of the year, AquaChile Chile reported sales of 88,000 gross tons of salmon and trout and 19,000 of tilapia.

CANADA - AgriMarine Holdings has executed a definitive Share Purchase Agreement with the shareholders of West Coast Fishculture and West Coast Fishculture (WCFC), a British Columbia-based steelhead pr…

POLAND - The European Commission has adopted a Regulation providing for a reduction of the annual salmon quota allocated to Poland in order to recover salmon quota overfished by Polish fishermen in 20…

AUSTRALIA - A team of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University has shown that ocean warming may make some large reef fish feel the same way.

The detection of pathogens at early stages of infection is a key point for disease control in aquaculture. This work by Dagoberto Seplveda et al, University Catlica de Valparaso, Chile, aims to design…

CANADA - Following the sale of the feed division EWOS, Cermaq is now a dedicated fish farming company. The company will therefore be changing the name of its farming operations to Cermaq.

Enteric Redmouth Disease (ERM), caused by Yersinia ruckeri, is one of the most important infectious diseases in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) aquaculture in Europe. More recently, non-motile vac…

FALKLAND ISLANDS - The collaborative expertise from two leading Scottish aquaculture companies has led to the successful completion of a brown trout farm in the Falkland Islands.

NORWAY - Results from this year's profitability studies for salmon and trout aquaculture have been released. The report shows that the profitability of salmon production varies greatly.

Samantha L White et al, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, examined levels of mRNA in domesticated, wild and hybrid rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to investigate the influence of genotype (domesticated…

For many farming practices, the capture, handling and transport of fish is an essential requirement; however with each of these activities found to be a stressful process, what are the implications fo…

US - NOAA is awarding $36 million for more than 40 coastal habitat restoration projects across the United States. These projects will restore up to 16,000 acres of habitat, and open nearly 400 stream …

ANALYSIS - In this week's news, A project is underway in the UK to establish rainbow trout aquaculture off the coast of Cornwall, writes Lucy Towers, TheFishSite Editor.

Scientists are seeking to improve the health benefits of rainbow trout by using dietary coriander oil along with vegetable oil to improve fatty acid composition in the fillet.